Posted by MikeT23 on 1/14/2013 3:53:00 PM (view original):While the fan's vote is just a popularity contest, the A/S bench is filled out by people who know baseball.

In his 15 year career, he made the A/S game 4 times. He wasn't even the best 1B in his league for his entire career.

Jeff Bagwell was my favorite player and I followed his career closely. The reason he didn't make many all-star teams is he was a terrific second half player, but not so good in the first half. I read an article in SI and he attributed it to his funky stance. Although there were some studs in the NL during his career, look closer at his MVP voting and you'll see he was one of the top players in the league.